To:A. O. ALSKY

Written:Written in June, before the 21st, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeAlsky:

Haveany measures been takento speed upandintensifyGokhran’s work?

Haveany Communists been
mobilised?[1]

Result:withinhow many monthsandwhat exactlywill
be done?Youwill be to blame if the question keeps
“sticking”, because in that case it will be your duty to lodge
a complaintspeedily, taking it upto the very top, i.e., the
Politbureau.

ButI mean speedily.

Thesummermust be made use of, and you are letting
it slip by: I warn you that the responsibility will fall
entirely on you. Hurry, and complain to me (about the
C.L.D.) and where I am not competent, to the Politbureau.

[1]Havingreceived this letter, Martens replied to Lenin that he
would immediately start working on the draft C.L.D. decision
concerning the industrial immigration of Russians from America and
would have it ready by six o’clock.

Thatsame day, June 22, 1921, the C.L.D. declared that it was
desirable to “develop separate industrial enterprises or groups of
enterprises by leasing them to groups of American workers, and
industrially developed peasants, on contractual terms assuring
them of a measure of economic autonomy” (Lenin Miscellany
XX, p. 202) The C.L.D. also recognised the need to regulate the
industrial immigration of workers from other countries, and
instructed the S.E.C. to work out the terms for leasing enterprises
to these workers.